Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness how I cling to thee?

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

You are lovelier than all the roses in the world.

I’d skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark-infested ocean of emotions. And, if you’ll forgive the dramatic metaphor, I was a lousy swimmer.

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing...

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.

What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

Do good, feel good; feel good, do good.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.